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title: It laid its right paw over its left, and the prince took the kerchie… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It laid its right paw over its left, and the prince took the kerchief Jamila had given him for the purpose, and rubbed the dust and earth from its face; then brought forward the game he had prepared, and crossing his hands respectfully on his breast stood waiting before it. Who acts: way, prince, ke
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 8

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It laid its right paw over its left, and the prince took the kerchief Jamila had given him for the purpose, and rubbed the dust and earth from its face; then brought forward the game he had prepared, and crossing his hands respectfully on his breast stood waiting before it.

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**Who acts:** way, prince, kerchief, Jamila, crossing · **What happens:** lay, take, give, rub, bring forward, prepare · **To what, where:** right paw, left, kerchief, Jamila, prince, dust

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, prince, kerchief, Jamila), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:4:8
# text = It laid its right paw over its left, and the prince took the kerchief Jamila had given him for the purpose, and rubbed the dust and earth from its face; then brought forward the game he had prepared, and crossing his hands respectfully on his breast stood waiting before it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
35	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
44	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	csubj	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
52	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	xcomp	_	_
53	before	before	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | way | way's right paw |  | way's left |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme over left=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | the prince | the kerchief |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive | the kerchief *not said here* | Jamila | prince |  |  | for the purpose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Theme for purpose=Asset |
| 4 | **rub** | past | the prince *not said here* | the dust and earth from way's face |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dust=Theme |
| 5 | **bring forward** | past | way *not said here* | the game |  |  | then | forward *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 6 | **prepare** | past · perfect | Jamila | the game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient |
| 7 | **cross** | gerund |  | Jamila's hands |  | Jamila's breast |  | respectfully *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 8 | **stand** | past | crossing |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **wait** | gerund | crossing *not said here* |  |  | way |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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